A minor earthquake magnitude 3 (ml/mb) has occurred on Monday, 8 kilometers (5 miles) from Capulin in New Mexico. Global date and time of event UTC/GMT: 08/12/25 / 2025-12-08 01:07:51 / December 8, 2025 @ 1:07 am. The earthquake was roughly at a depth of 9.968 km (6 miles). Event id: us6000rt9x. Ids that are associated to the earthquake: us6000rt9x. Exact location of event, depth 9.968 km, -106.7539° West, 36.2945° North. The temblor was reported at 01:07:51 / 1:07 am (local time epicenter).

Epicenter of the earthquake was 60 km (38 miles) from Los Alamos (c. 12 000 pop), 69 km (43 miles) from Española (c. 10 200 pop), 72 km (45 miles) from White Rock (c. 5 700 pop). Closest city/cities/towns to epicentrum/hypocenter was White Rock, Española, Los Alamos (min 5000 pop). Nearby country/countries, United States (c. 310 233 000 pop) (That might be effected).

Earthquakes 3.0 to 4.0 are often felt, but only causes minor damage. Each year there are an estimated 130,000 minor earthquakes in the world. In the past 24 hours, there have been one, in the last 10 days one, in the past 30 days one and in the last 365 days two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or greater that was reported nearby.

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How did you react? Was there any damage to buildings? Leave a comment or report about shaking, activity and damage at your home, city and country. This data comes from the USGS Earthquake Notification Service. Read more about the earthquake, Seismometer information, Distances, Parameters, Date-Time, Location and details about this quake, that has occurred near: 8 km NNE of Capulin, New Mexico.

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